I Survived the Battle of D-Day Chapters 1 and 2

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Across
  1. 3. This word means “a piece of land planted with fruit trees.” This was one of the places that Paul and Gerald chased and/or dribbled the soccer ball. P. 7
  2. 5. Maman worked a lot, sewing and mending clothing. She often made ________ early in the morning. P. 5
  3. 6. The Nazis took Gerald and his family away one cold night in March. The Nazis had ________ every Jewish person in town and shoved them into trucks. P. 7
  4. 8. This word means, “currently circulating story or report which may or may not be true.” The ______ being passed around Le Roc were too horrifying to believe. P. 8
  5. 9. The name of the evil German Nazi leader was ________ Hitler. P. 4
  6. 11. Unverified accounts were passed from person to person of huge prisons where Jewish people were _______ and worked to death. P. 8
  7. 14. This word means, “The remains of something that has been badly damaged or destroyed.” P. 3
  8. 17. As Paul was crouched on a cliff above Omaha Beach, he looked up and saw a plane in flames in a fiery death _______, heading right for him. P. 2
  9. 18. The setting of the story is the cliffs above Omaha Beach in ________, France on Tuesday, June 6, 1944. P. 1
Down
  1. 1. Paul resolved that it was going to be a good day. It was, after all, Maman’s ___________. P. 8
  2. 2. Paul and Gerald both loved soccer and had “an obsessive interest in and enthusiasm for it.” Thus, they were described as _________. P. 6
  3. 4. With the war in its fifth year, all the best food had _______ into the hands of the Nazis. P. 5
  4. 7. Practically every young man in Europe was either fighting in the war or was a ________ of the Germans. P. 6
  5. 10. The soldiers had one three-fold mission: to free France from the brutal grip of Nazi _________, crush the Nazis, and to end the war. P. 2
  6. 12. Paul wondered if it could be true that train cars were packed so tightly with Jewish people that they couldn’t _________. P. 8
  7. 13. This word means, “a person or animal emitting a deep loud roar, typically in pain or anger.” P. 2
  8. 15. On D-Day, more than one hundred fifty thousand soldiers invaded France from America, England and _______ P. 1
  9. 16. The Allies had sailed across the sea on 7,000 ships, _________ through the dark of night. P. 2